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This book sheds light on the work of one of the 20th century’s foremost critical educators, the Italian Lorenzo Milani (1923–1967), on the 90th anniversary of his birth. It provides an exposition and critical analysis of the ideas contained in his writings, ideas that...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-01-01
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We live in the age of global science – but not, primarily, in the sense of ‘universal knowledge’ that has characterized the liberal metanarrative of ‘free’ science and the ‘free society’ since its early development in the Enlightenment. Today, an economic logic links...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-01-01
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This book won the 2014 AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award. This reader begins a conversation about the many aspects of critical youth studies. Chapters in this volume consider essential issues such as class, gender, sexuality, race,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-12-31
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This vital addition to Springer’s ‘Educating the Young Child’ series addresses gaps in the literature on father involvement in the lives of young children, a topic with a fast-rising profile in today’s world of female breadwinners and single-parent households. While the...
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Springer
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2012-12-30
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This volume tackles head-on the controversy regarding the tensions between the principles underlying Academe on the one hand, and the free market on the other. Its outspoken thesis posits that seemingly irresistible institutional pressures are betraying a core principle...
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Springer
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2012-12-30
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Science fairs, clubs, and talent searches are familiar fixtures in American education, yet little is known about why they began and grew in popularity. InScience Education and Citizenship, Sevan G. Terzian traces the civic purposes of these extracurricular programs for...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-12-28
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Biocapitalism, an economic model built on making new commodities from existing forms of life, has fundamentally changed how we understand the boundaries between nature/culture and human/nonhuman. This is the first book to examine its implications for education and how...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-12-28
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Lesson play is a novel construct in research and teachers’ professional development in mathematics education.Lesson play refers to a lesson or part of a lesson presented in dialogue form—inspired in part by Lakatos’s evocative Proofs and Refutations—featuring imagined...
Editeur :
Springer
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2012-12-28
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If people perceive you to have an anger management problem, it's likely you spend most of your time dealing with the consequences of this, rather than the causes. This practical book, full of diagnostic questionnaires and immediately applicable advice, will help you to...
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Teach Yourself
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2012-12-28
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The ability to persuade people to agree with you can be crucial to your working life. This book will help you apply the psychology of persuasion to your writing. Persuasion expert Karen Mannering guides you through all aspects of business writing, from adverts to...
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Teach Yourself
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2012-12-28
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Written by Phil Parvin and Clare Chambers, who are current political philosophy lecturers and leading researchers, Political Philosophy - The Essentials is designed to give you everything you need to succeed, all in one place. It covers the key areas that students are...
Editeur :
Teach Yourself
Parution :
2012-12-28
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This book critically examines the socio-cultural role of achievement within education, arguing that the increasingly global demand for measurable standards of academic achievement is an expression of political ideology and the aggressive competitive reality of a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2012-12-24
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This first book in the series will describe the Net Generation as visual learners who thrive when surrounded with new technologies and whose needs can be met with the technological innovations. These new learners seek novel ways of studying, such as collaborating with...
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Springer
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2012-12-24
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This edited volume with selected papers from extinguished experts and professors in the field of learning technology and the related fields who are far-sighted and have his/her own innovative thoughts on the development of learning technology. This book will addresses...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2012-12-20
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Covering both Primary and Secondary teaching, this handbook offers support to those delivering school-based teacher training. By identifying best practice, the book shows you how to develop your professional knowledge and become an effective teacher educator and...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2012-12-18
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Die Beiträge zu diesem Band sind aus der Tagung «Fach- und Wissenschaftskommunikation» (Liberec, 7.-9. Oktober 2010) hervorgegangen. In der sächsisch-tschechischen Grenzregion wurde dort den Grenzbereichen zwischen zwei Varietäten nachgespürt, die in der linguistischen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-12-18
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This volume provides essential guidance for transforming mathematics learning in schools through the use of innovative technology, pedagogy, and curriculum. It presents clear, rigorous evidence of the impact technology can have in improving students learning of...
Editeur :
Springer
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2012-12-16
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This book analyzes policies in eight European countries that aim to intervene in the reproduction of social and educational inequalities. In order to understand why some policies succeed and others fail, it is necessary to look at education systems through...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-12-15
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Benefiting from the support and involvement of two major international research networks, this collection features the latest research findings in TVET. Members of INAP, the International Network on Innovative Apprenticeship, and VETNET, the Vocational Education and...
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Springer
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2012-12-14
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?This edited volume with selected expanded papers from CELDA (Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age) 2011 (http://www.celda--conf.org/) will focus on Ubiquitous and Mobile Informal and Formal Learning in...
Editeur :
Springer
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2012-12-13
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